Day: May 25, 2020

Locust control operations carried out in over 4 lakh hectare so far in 10 states

Desert locusts enter Vidarbha region

11:57 pm May 25, 2020

Mumbai: A swarm of desert locusts has entered the eastern part of Maharashtra where district and agriculture department personnel have initiated chemical spraying on crops and vegetation to save them from the migratory pests, said officials on Monday. Primary reports indicated that in the last couple of days, four to five villages in the Vidarbha […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

British PM’s aide refuses to quit; cities “exceptional circumstances” for 400-km drive during lockdown

11:48 pm May 25, 2020

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s embattled top aide on Monday refused to quit and defended his actions of driving over 400 kilometres to his parents’ home at the height of the coronavirus stay-at-home lockdown, seen as a breach of rules. Dominic Cummings, who as Johnson’s Chief Strategy Adviser is mostly a behind the scenes […]

Women’s panel takes up case of man killing wife using snake

11:43 pm May 25, 2020

Kollam: The Kerala State Women’s Commission on Monday took up on its own the case of a 25-year-old woman who died near here after her husband allegedly let a cobra bite her in her sleep recently. The case has been taken under various provisions of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act against Sooraj, the […]

Fire in scrap godown in Thane district

11:37 pm May 25, 2020

Thane: A fire broke out at a scrap godown near Dombivali in Thane district of Maharashtra on Monday night, Fire Brigade officials said. No casualties were reported. The blaze was noticed at the godown located in Govili village at 10 pm and two fire engines and water tankers were rushed to the spot, they said. […]

Woman jumps in front of train with nine-month-old son

Migrants protest in Punjab over ‘cancelled train’

11:32 pm May 25, 2020

Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab): Migrant labourers protested in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district on Monday after they came to know that a Bihar-bound train was cancelled. Senior Superintendent of Police Amneet Kondal said a rumour spread that buses will leave for Bihar from the Khalsa School in Mandi Gobindgarh town, following which a large number of migrant […]

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